Spores: medium-sized, hyaline, tear-drop shaped, smooth, 6-7 × 3-4 µm and not blueing when mounted in solutions containing iodine. Marginal cystidia: little different from young basidia in dimension and shape, although some may have a short apical prolongation. Facial cystidia: absent. _Habitat_ & _Distribution_: Woods, copses, heaths and hill-pastures from summer to autumn. _General Information_: An easily recognisable fungus because of its graceful stature, thin, funnel-shaped pinkish buff cap and tear-drop-shaped spores. Several _Clitocybe_ species grow in woodlands, many of them appearing later in the season when colourful agarics are rarer. The genus _Clitocybe_ is characterised by the fleshy cap with incurved margin when young, fibrous, fleshy stem and decurrent gills. _C. clavipes_ (Fries) Kummer has a smoky brown, top-shaped cap, fragile stem which also has a distinct swelling at its base, and strong rather unpleasant smell. _C. nebularis_ (Fries) Kummer is similar, but is pale cloudy grey, has a less fragile stem and a fairly pleasant smell. This species if often covered in a bloom which develops further as the fruit-body deteriorates. The agaric _Volvariella surrecta_ (Knapp) Singer is a rare parasite of _C. nebularis_ (see p. 247) and it has been suggested that this bloom may in fact belong to this species. However, I have on several occasions tried to encourage the bloom to reproduce by keeping hoary looking fruit-bodies of _C. nebularis_ in a damp-chamber, but as yet I have never been successful. Nevertheless, it is an exercise which would be of great interest to continue and a source of great excitement if the small pink-spored agaric were produced. _C. fragrans_ (Fries) Kummer is a small, sweetly aromatic-smelling species found in frondose woods, and _C. langei_ Hora, is a mealy-smelling species of conifer plantations. _Illustrations_: F 16a; Hvass 55; LH 95; WD 16². [Illustration: Plate 19. Fleshy fungi: Spores white and borne on gills] ~Hebeloma crustuliniforme~ (St Amans) Quélet Fairy-cake mushroom _Cap_: width 40-80 mm. _Stem_: width 8-12 mm; length 38-85 mm. _Description_: Cap: pale yellow buff or pale tan with a distinct reddish buff or cinnamon-brown tint, darkening only slightly with age; smooth, at first tacky to the fingers, but then dry and shiny at centre, convex and hardly expanding. Stem: cylindrical or slightly swollen towards the base, whitish and with a flush of pinkish buff at apex, and covered all over in small, white scales. Gills: sinuate, crowded, pale clay-colour or buff, but finally dull dark yellow ochre except for the distinct white margins which are beaded in wet weather with droplets of liquid. Flesh: whitish with a very strong smell of radishes. Spore-print: dark clay-colour.